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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/sparc-tdep.c b/gdb/sparc-tdep.c
index 1bcdeb8..c2f3cfb 100644
--- a/gdb/sparc-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/sparc-tdep.c
@@ -834,6 +834,18 @@ sparc32_return_value (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, struct type *type,
return RETURN_VALUE_REGISTER_CONVENTION;
}
+#if 0
+/* NOTE: cagney/2004-01-17: For the moment disable this method. The
+ architecture and CORE-gdb will need new code (and a replacement for
+ EXTRACT_STRUCT_VALUE_ADDRESS) before this can be made to work
+ robustly. Here is a possible function signature: */
+/* NOTE: cagney/2004-01-17: So far only the 32-bit SPARC ABI has been
+ identifed as having a way to robustly recover the address of a
+ struct-convention return-value (after the function has returned).
+ For all other ABIs so far examined, the calling convention makes no
+ guarenteed that the register containing the return-value will be
+ preserved and hence that the return-value's address can be
+ recovered. */
/* Extract from REGCACHE, which contains the (raw) register state, the
address in which a function should return its structure value, as a
CORE_ADDR. */
@@ -846,6 +858,7 @@ sparc32_extract_struct_value_address (struct regcache *regcache)
regcache_cooked_read_unsigned (regcache, SPARC_SP_REGNUM, &sp);
return read_memory_unsigned_integer (sp + 64, 4);
}
+#endif
static int
sparc32_stabs_argument_has_addr (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, struct type *type)
@@ -1069,8 +1082,6 @@ sparc32_gdbarch_init (struct gdbarch_info info, struct gdbarch_list *arches)
set_gdbarch_push_dummy_call (gdbarch, sparc32_push_dummy_call);
set_gdbarch_return_value (gdbarch, sparc32_return_value);
- set_gdbarch_extract_struct_value_address
- (gdbarch, sparc32_extract_struct_value_address);
set_gdbarch_stabs_argument_has_addr
(gdbarch, sparc32_stabs_argument_has_addr);